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Poker Quest is a fantasy roguelike where players use a standard 52-card deck to take on fierce enemies in epic battles. Featuring over 20 unique heroes, thousands of items, and deep gameplay that will test even the most experienced players.
Poker Quest: Swords and Spades is a deckbuilding, roguelike deckbuilder and card battler game
developed and published by Playsaurus.
Released on November 14th 2022 is available in English on Windows and MacOS.
It has received 678 reviews of which 590 were positive and 88 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.2 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel® Core™ Duo 2.4GHz or equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 2006 or newer graphics card.
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Sound Card: Any sound card.
MacOS
- OS: Mac OS X v10.6, and above
- Processor: Intel® Core™ Duo 2.4GHz or equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 2008 or newer graphics card.
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Sound Card: Any sound card.
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I remember playing this game long ago back on Kongregate when it had even more rudimentary artwork. So, it was fun to see it pop up here when I was looking at the Steam deckbuilding event. it's quite fun. You equip your hero with weapons and armor that fire off with poker combinations, and attempt to defeat a series of monsters. I would like the game even more if the map were a Puzzle Quest-inspired RPG map with stories and quests rather than an FTL/slay the spire branching roguelite thing, since I never feel inspired to complete those flowcharts in the way I do for an RPG map, but if you like that kind of thing, I'm sure you know what you're getting into. Very fun mechanics :)
Brutal RNG game where you try to make it as far as possible each run, you can more or less forget about consistent victories when playing Classic mode, even if there is a lot of room to optimize plays. I still haven't made it to the final boss once. Upgrades Mode makes the game easier overtime through meta progression, I presume the game is a lot more doable on that one, but haven't tried it. Playing Classic gives +100% more XP however, which is used passively to unlock classes. Should the game decide the opponent draws good cards every turn, there's not necessarily a lot of counter play. Same enemy can be absolutely devastating or completely harmless, depending on luck. Just died because I assumed opponent's hidden cards are unlikely to be be Ace and King. If one doesn't mind the RNG and is okay with the concept of attempting to get as far as possible instead of winning, I'd still recommend waiting for a sale.
PQ is a rouge-lite/rouge-like that uses a standard 52-card deck as its engine. Despite this fact, and the name of the title, gameplay actually has basically nothing to do with poker. Instead, you will take turns against the computer drawing hands and attempting to use those cards in conjunction with your equipment and possibly your character's special power. Activation of your equipment may be based on the rank, suit, rank and suit, or mini-straights, mini-flushes, and so forth. There are dozens of characters, with the primary difference between each being the character's special power (noting that the starting loadout is also unique for each character, but this has less effect end-game). These powers range from direct damage, to manipulating your opponent's hand, to resource gathering, and on and on. The diversity of powers (and hence characters) is quite impressive. Apart from the special power and loadout, each character has a base draw size, bonus draw size (powered by the collectible resource "gems"), equipment limit, and vision. Each of these base characteristics may be upgraded through the use of the primary in-game currency (poker chips). The gameplay itself takes place over a StS-like node system. The possible interactions at each node are impressively numerous. These range from typical battles (gaining you chips), places to trade resources (health, food, chips, gems) , shops to purchase more equipment, blacksmith to upgrade equipment, various mini-games, special boss battles to gain unique powers, and much more. Of special note are the mini-games, which come in three flavors, standard Texas hold-em, blackjack, and 5-card draw poker, with the wrinkle in each being that you get to allocate your drawn cards across three hands at once, with each hand then compared to a separate hand of the opponent. This was very nicely done. The nodes are separated into three areas, with each area ending in a boss and containing a castle in the middle. The castle contains a random assortment of 4 things you might find on a standard node in addition to a couple of tougher fights. After completion of the three areas you will face a final boss, after which the run will end (90-120 min?). Win-or-lose you gain experience, which goes to unlocking the next new character as well as providing you points to spend on your meta-progression. It is noted that you can play without meta-progression, but this mode is quite difficult, and even more suspectible to the randomness of the nodes (most specifically your potential lack of access to shops and blacksmiths). The mechanics of the fights themselves are dependent on your equipment (and the enemies "equipment"), which fall into the following categories: standard attack, poison, fire, lightning, curse, offensive manipulation of your hand, defensive manipulation of the opponent's hand, and block. These effects vary in effectiveness across the characters, but generally speaking you will want to focus on poison, curse, and defensive manipulation. You will want to avoid lightning (which is unreliable) and block (which has a cooldown and isn't worth the equipment space). These general guidelines aside, you may be greatly restricted by the equipment you are offered in shops, with access to shops themselves being largely completely random (aside from the first castle, at which point you are likely chip-poor anyway). By way of my thoughts, I found PQ runs extremely easy to get into. Noting that my recorded playtime is greatly exaggerated by idle time, I do probably have a few hundred hours into the game. The core gameplay is fun and the within-run power ascension is very satisfying. The run-to-run diversity in what you may encounter is large, and in conjunction with the dozens of characters you may unlock, keep the game relatively fresh. That said, there is a consistent formula for winning and the existence of the same bosses in each area greatly restricts your build options. Most notably bosses that gain a card when you hit them, which pretty much require you to focus on poison and strong curse builds. Prior to purchase you may carefully review the negative reviews, some of which bring up some valid criticisms around randomness and balance. However, I think what is here is really solid, and provides a full and unique card-based rougelite/like experience. Beyond that, the game is ridiculously cheap on sale. Overall: 8.5/10
400 hours in and I'm still enjoying the game. There are 3 game modes within the game for multiple challenges. The daily challenges have surprise characters for each holiday such as Santa for Christmas and the Easter Bunny for Easter. A lot of different ways to build your deck with a plethora of characters and weapon choices. If you like Balatro and RPG, you will enjoy this one.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Poker Quest: Swords and Spades is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.
No, Poker Quest: Swords and Spades is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.79€ on Steam.
Yes, Poker Quest: Swords and Spades received 590 positive votes out of a total of 678 achieving a rating of 8.18.
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Poker Quest: Swords and Spades was developed and published by Playsaurus.
Yes, Poker Quest: Swords and Spades is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Yes, Poker Quest: Swords and Spades is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
No, Poker Quest: Swords and Spades is not playable on Linux.
Poker Quest: Swords and Spades is a single-player game.
No, Poker Quest: Swords and Spades does not currently offer any DLC.
No, Poker Quest: Swords and Spades does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Poker Quest: Swords and Spades does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Poker Quest: Swords and Spades is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Poker Quest: Swords and Spades.
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Developer
Playsaurus
Publisher
Playsaurus
Release
14 Nov 2022
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